Awaken Empowering Women

Yesterday I took this picture at City Park in New Orleans. It’s a stunning representation of how I will move into the New Year. I will adapt and stay resilient but I will also let things be, I will curve and twist to find the light and keep on growing.

To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings ~ David Whyte

To my little women, I’m so proud of you and amazed at the wonderful ladies you’re becoming! Happy first day of school beauties 💞!

Being a Full Wolf Moon 🐺🌕 has graced us with her presents…out of all my children Norah is the most instinctual, the most free, the most wild in nature…the reason they call it a “Wolf Moon” is because they thought that the wolves howled longer and louder on this night due to winter hunger…I think this tale has less to do with hunger and more todo with connection. What Wolf with you feed? Norah as wild and free as she is needs connection. Mothers don’t every doubt your instinctual nature ✨.

As a mother of 4 watching a sister move into a new chapter of her journey I can’t help but feel proud, empowered and grateful. She helped me raise my babies, she cut Norah’s cord and now we will get to help her raise her babies…full circle 💞!

Don’t mind me just ugly crying as I watched you walk down the aisle 💞!

Girls that Golf 💞!

Rituals...because that’s my business!

16 Months ago I sat in a workshop of amazing women as we trained to be Postpartum Doula’s in a small home in downtown St. Paul...We shared space, we listened to each other and we all became much more knowledgeable. Most of my speciality has todo with Postpartum Depression and PTSD from traumatic birth. My research lead me to a form, not one...many forms of Racial Differences in Maternal Mortality...Black Women are 2-6 times more likely to die from complications than White Women. This was heartbreaking to me...WHY! So I started reading, educating myself!!! Systemic Racism came up, White Body Supremacy came up and the Coding in our DNA. I found it amazing that if Black Woman had access to Doula’s, Midwives and in house visits the number decreased drastically! I ask that you sit with this for a while, I ask that you wrap your head around the fact that Black Woman are terrified to go into a health care facility to give birth because it’s a gamble on their life. All that being said please Donate to Roots Community Birth Center in Minneapolis!

Venmo:

If you are interested in reading more about this I have lots of resources and I am always willing to share!

16 Months ago I sat in a workshop of amazing women as we trained to be Postpartum Doula’s in a small home in downtown St. Paul...We shared space, we listened to each other and we all became much more knowledgeable. Most of my speciality has todo with Postpartum Depression and PTSD from traumatic birth. My research lead me to and form, not one...many forms of Racial Differences in Maternal Mortality...Black Women are 2-6 times more likely to die from complications than White Women. This was heartbreaking to me...WHY! So I started reading, educating myself!!! Systemic Racism came up, White Body Supremacy came up and the Coding in our DNA. I found it amazing that if Black Woman had access to Doula’s, Midwives and in house visits the number decreased drastically! I ask that you sit with this for a while, I ask that you wrap your head around the fact that Black Woman are terrified to go into a health care facility to give birth because it’s a gamble on their life. All that being said please Donate to Roots Community Birth Center in Minneapolis!

Venmo:

If you are interested in reading more about this I have lots of resources and I am always willing to share!

Shared from Rise Up Midwife/China Tolliver

🛑CALL TO ACTION! 🛑

Roots Community Birth Center in Minneapolis, owned by Black midwife Rebecca Polston is in need of urgent support now!!!

Rebecca was forced to abandon her birth center due to the protest and fires in Minneapolis that are occurring close to her birth center. She needs funds to continue providing optimal midwifery care for her community in need!

How to help?
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Funds will go directly to Midwife Rebecca Polston!

There are only seven Black owned birth centers in the United States, please help keep this one open!

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How do you Empower Soon to be Mothers? You talk about fears, you talk about the unknowns, you talk about the strength and power they hold within!